 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numlxrs flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must ntures at the temple-gate, Old Baucis is by old Philemon...sudden leaves of sprightly green : Old Baucis look'd loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing jI 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word compro'bavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...who have learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho sh mellifluous dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent ronr. When Ajax... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when...Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number-- flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion... | |
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives... 
